| From: | ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.Colorado.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: wait a second |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:54:21 -0700 (MST) |
On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Mark L. Neidengard wrote:
> Brian, we've got to clarify some stuff here. Amazonia is not going to be
> finished with La Paz that quickly. In fact, the diplomatic repercussions of
> the incident are _nowhere_ near over. To be explicit, the base isn't
> coming back quite that easily.
I'm reasonable on this, but Maxim IS putting a command team back in place
to be sure that Amazonia doesn't destroy the rest of the facility. After
all, it _is_ Maxim property.
Oh, and this is a statement. It will happen, and it will happen
tomorrow. Maxim won't try to kick out the Amazonians, but they will
officially put representatives there.
> I'm in the process of writing up a follow-up
> to yesterday's Novacek report in which the remaining Maxim personell will have
> been returned to neutral territory (read: deported) but Maxim is _by_no_means_
> going to resume operations that easily.
Amazonia would have had no reason to deport Maxim's employees since they
didn't know about Maxim's nukes. They would have had a reason to shut
down the operations, but not deport the employees, most of whom live in
LaPaz itself. Ie, Amazonia just kicked out thier own, taxpaying
citizens. And Amazonia does not control all of South America, so the
farthest they would have gone is Quito, Ecuador, or Santiago, Chile if
you believe Quito is still in Amazonia.
But I see you went ahead and did it anyway.... So much for my timing.
Actually, this became an issue when Mark and I were discussing this the
first time: does anyone know where the hell the borders of Amazonia
are? I looked through all my books and only found mention of the
northern border with Aztlan being in the middle of Columbia. I figure
all of Brazil, maybe much of Argintina, Uraguay, Paraguay, and the north
coast of South America. But I don't think Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and most
of the Andes. I would think some of those would be the renewal of the
Incas, personally, and that the coastal and mountains just don't seem to fit.
> What we need to figure out, actually, is whether or not Amazonia will try and/or
> succeed in freezing all Maxim assets in the region. At the moment, Amazonian
> troops have been dispatched to all other Maxim installations, and are prepared
> to move in en masse. What we have here is little less than an act of war to
> one of the most environmentally-conscious countries in the world.
Yeah, by a terrorist organization. :) Maxim did nothing wrong,
officially, except not inform Amazonia that they had plutonium on the
site, which, depending on how lax or tough thier corp extraterritoriality
laws are, could be a problem. The environmental problems didn't occur
until the nuke was destroyed, therefore it's not officially Maxim's fault.
Now, if you still want to say that Amazonia has put troops outside the
bases, that's fine with me. Here's the list of the ones I figure would
be affected: LaPaz(duh), Porto Alegre, Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Caracas,
Rio, San Luis. There are others, but I figure that they are outside
Amazonia. And Amazonia, even if Quito is in Amazonia, would not put
troops outside that. It's the Continental HQ and Maxim would not take
well to having troops stationed around it.
Oh, by they way. Amazonia is not going to move against Maxim, because I
will not allow Maxim's presence in South America to be destroyed. For
similar reasons, I have rejected all the eviction ideas you've proposed
as too extreme. Sorry, Mark.
> There are several different eventual outcomes I might see, including
> - eviction of all Maxim R&D and retension of only local warehouses
> - eviction of Maxim, completely
> - eviction of Maxim with all assets in country taken over by the government
Maxim has very little R&D in South America, except a couple of small,
temporary installations that Maxim pays the local nation well to use
thier rainforest. It's mostly non-military production and raw materials
plus sattelite communications, etc.
I'm not going to let Maxim be kicked out. Period. Which means no
government seizure of all assets either.
I can handle Maxim being restricted to certain buisnesses in Amazonia
because they're already restricted. I can also handle kicking out all
R&D, since that would actually hurt Maxim by denying them access to
biological diversity in the Amazon Basin. And I can handle Maxim being
forced to sell the LaPaz facility to Amazonia. But that's about it.
Brian
